Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-30
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TEXAS CITIES.

Gainesville, Fort Worth and Dallas-Their
wealth aad Prusperity-Tho New Field
Now Open ~ Kansas CITY Business Men.
Correspondence of the Kansas City Journal.
GALVESTON, TEX, May 2G.-In ride
between the two gates of Texas, Gaines
Vile AMI Galveston, one can hardly be-
lieye that away out on the plains ere
thousands of tons of bones gathered
through a long drouth that caused the
death of numberless cattle and prevented
the growing of the crops. The people in
their present state of good feeling have
seemingly forgotten their trials and
troubles. We hear Of the drouth, but
it is as a drOuth broken. Generous rains
have visited every portion OF the state,
aad rs garden blooms the entire
country.
We have long been accustomed to hear
II Texas as q grazing state, whose sur
face is covered by millions OF cattle, and
where ranches ere of princely extent, that
il Is hard to believe all these cities seen
in cur brief Journey are real. Retaining
g yivin remembrance of Texas beet, (which
appears 10 De sought after by heproprie-
tors Of railroad eating houses to impede
the work of hungry Jaws on more whole
some food, and having photographed in
the minds eye picture of a lean, lans,
Texts steer, | was not fully prepared fer
the rich grazing TO be found in this state,
and the wealth of cultivated fields.
Kansas CITY business men have sought
Texas trade, and without investigation
have been led to believe that saddles, re-
vOlvars, Winchester rifles, ammunition
and Whisky have been given in exchange
for Texas cattle, which foisted upon
8 guileleSs east as Kansas and Illinois
corn fed. They were dressed, you know,
and when their long horns and sCrsWny
hides 1ad been separated from the beef
there was no reason why the glue man,
she hide man and the boarding house
keeper should not all feel happy.
My Old dreams in this regard have
changed, for | have found here cities
that can give our favoTite Kansas towns
odds and then win the race. 1t is hard
for Kansan TO acknowledge this, but 8
bath in the Gulf of Mexico has worked
even this greatest of wonders, the making
of g Kansas man see straight and &C
knowledge the truth before all men.
Only few DAYS since the SAINTS Re "brass
collars" MeSsrs. Strong, Smith, Goddard,
Peck, Holiday, Severy, Nickerson and
others visited this city and took g
surf bath before dinner, and immediately
Mr.. Strong declared Galveston as hand
some 81 Guy as Boston. Mr.. Nickerson
declared the island more beautiful than
those in Massachusetts bay. Mr.. God
dard asserted that the bay would one day
be one OF the leading harborS OF the
world. Mr.. holiday insisted that he
always did love the sandy beach and the
people VINO redeemed it from wilder
ness and built city. Mr.. Severy owned
up to the superiority of the Galveston sys-
TEN of street railway, while Mr.. Peck was
almost ready to admit! that Texas cities
were nearly equal to mis- Own beloved
Topeka; but then Mr.. Peck did not get
very wet, having been content to put on
4 bathing suit and set on the pagodS
steps watching his brethren dive through
the breakers. All these gentlemen by
one days residence gained the title of
colonel, but, uuaccusComod to their new
hon2-S, iasist Ia. o2!y IN the privacy of